Assistant Professor at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Trento Area, Italy
Assistant Professor at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Trento Area, Italy
(Research industry)
February 2008 — Present (1 year 6 months)
The primary activity is investigation into logic-based knowledge representation, focussed on ontologies, Ontology w.r.t. parthood and granularity, and formal conceptual data modelling. Other activities comprise organisation of seminars, summer school etc., project proposal&report writing, reviewing and so forth.
(Computer Hardware industry)
June 2000 — January 2002 (1 year 8 months)
Activities: Developing and implementing test plans for the integration testing of the 1 and 2 Gb Storage solutions (RAID in SAN/NAS), contributed to bug resolution by interacting with our Product Development Departments (R&D) and suppliers. Contributed to the phase 1 and 2 exits of the iSCSI converter development. Involvement in the customisation and support (including providing training at engineering level) for one of the major OEMs. Configurations includes SANs, NAS and operating systems NT, Win2k, Red Hat Linux and NetWare. Use of in-house and proprietary analysis & debugging tools and management software.
(Public Company; CPQ; Computer Hardware industry)
August 1999 — May 2000 (10 months)
I was member of the German Enterprise Team. Activities: Troubleshooting problems and providing solutions for large business environments. Development and maintenance of the intranet-site of Engineering Support and EMEA Enterprise Support, and Minilab manager Enterprise level (a.o. structuring the lab resources, hard- and software installations)
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
November 1998 — July 1999 (9 months)
PhD , Computer Science , 2005 — 2007
Thesis on granularity
BSc (Hons) , Computing , 2001 — 2004
1st class honours
Thesis on conceptual data modelling & database development for biology
MA , Peace & Development Studies , 2002 — 2003
1st class honors.
Thesis on Terrorism and Game theory
Diploma , Interior Design Studies , 2000 — 2000
Diploma in Interior Design Studies (2-’00/11-’00), graduated with distinction.
Rhodec International certification: distinction.
MSc , Microbiology , 1992 — 1998
Theses (3): Food Microbiology, Molecular Ecology (of micororganisms), and Applied Philosophy
Work Experience (in research institute): International Potato Centre, Lima, Peru, 6 months
VWO , 1986 — 1992